My Hip Replacement #17

There’s just not a lot to say about this anymore, but a final update or two are probably still out there in the future when I meet with my plastic surgeon again next week and my hip team again in late July. Let’s go from the low points to the high points…
My incision is still healing. It is healing. It is just healing slowly. I’ll see the plastic surgeon again next week and get an official answer on this, but to me it looks better than it did a week ago, two weeks ago, and, of course, when it was downright nasty.
On the other hand, here we are eight weeks out from surgery, and I have no trouble from the replacement itself outside of the incision (though technically I guess the hip itself in “inside the incision”). Let’s be realistic, I’m fifty-six and ache a bit from time to time. That’s probably not going to change no matter how much stretching and exercise I do (though that does help a lot), but my hip really isn’t part of the equation anymore. Thank goodness.
The highlight of the week has to be my twenty mile bike ride yesterday. Twenty miles isn’t a particularly long distance, at least not for me or the friends I tend to ride with here or on the mainland. But it’s the longest I’ve done since getting back on the bike two weeks ago. I could have gone further but the sun was going down and…well…it was time to go home and eat. Besides I really don’t want to overdo it. I haven’t added any hills yet, but probably will see how it goes later this week. At the rate I’m going, and with the breaks I must take due to travel, I expect that by mid-August I should be back in the shape I’d need for a nice long ride to Haleiwa. I’d also be willing to do a wee bit less but haul camping gear. In fact I’d love to go camping in August…who’s up for Malaekahana?
And finally, at least for now, I’ll be flying soon and am perversely looking forward to finding out if I set off the sensors at the airport. Will they want to check my scar? It’ll be an adventure.
That’s it for now!